Heroku Postgres Error: PGError: ERROR: relation “organizations” does not exist (ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid)

Question

I\'m having a problem deploying my Rails app to Heroku, where this error is thrown when trying to access the app:

PGError: ERROR: relation \"organiz

Answer 1

After hours of sifting through answer, I realized that when you specify

rails new MYAPP -database POSTGRESQL

it changes the .gitignore file, ignoring the entire /db/ directory, so my database was never getting pushed up to heroku. Remove it with caution, or at least don't have your username and password in there where you push up.